Mohave County miner., 1887-12-03
EduestisnsI Notes.


/. Colorado shows the highest average
paid 70 woman teachers.
The New Jersey Teachers Reading
Circle has membership OF 1896.
In West Virginia the average Of men
and women teachers' wages Is the same.
Hidemare Namboo, OF Japan, who
graduated from Princeton In 1878, il
court astronomer at Toxic.
A demand Ii urged for a calisthenic
song book, or even calisthenic song
that shall be new and fresh.
The winter meeting Of the National
Educational Association will be held at
Washington, February l4-l8, 1888.
Harvard College is at high tide Of
fortune, having received no less than s3,.
900, ,0ooin gifts during the last five months.
The great telescope OF Dearborn Uni
versity, Chicago, has passed into the
possession Of the Nortbcrnwestern Uni
versity OF Illinois.
The TACT is shown that very large
majority Of all cases Of myopia, or near
sightedness, have their origin during the
period Of school life.
II ~ expected that the new frcproof
building Of Syracuse University, TO con-
tain the Won Ranke library, will be COM
pied within year. .........
The election oi Miss Alice VI. Long
fellow TO place on the School Board at
Cambridge, Mass, is viewed with much
satisfaction in that section.
The first College President in this
country Of scandinavian origin is Edward
Olson, recently elected to the Presidency
Of the University OF Dakota.
4 scboo! for the teaching Of vo!apuk is
to be- opened by the Bavarian Minister OF
Worship at the Luitpold gymnasium in
Munich. .... .....
II is in Boston that fifty lady teachers
unite in securing an instructor and lee
turer, devoting their spare hours to hard
study Of psychology.
It was on account OF his rigorous treat
ment of students in the gymnasium that
NJ. Delianof, the Russian Minister OF
Public instruction, was dismissed .
Of the tiiity-eight students matricu-
lated on All SAINTS Day at the General
Episcopal Seminary, two are Of the color
ed race, one being a son Of Bishop Holly,
Of Hayti. ..... .... .......
The building for the Ramona Indian
Girls School at Santa Fe, ~ NJ, com
memorating Helen Hunt Jackson, will
cost 1900, being arranged TO accommo-
date b0 pupils. -~ #s>..
Efforts are made by the Russian gov
ernment to suppress the Socialistic and
Nihilistic literature extensively circulated
among the students Of the polytechnic
schools and private lyceums.
The cross OF an officer of the Legion OF
Honor has been conferred by the French
government on G. II, r. Peters, of Ham
ilton College, in recognition Of his achieve
ments in astronomical science. 90.
The University OF Pennsylvania has
received the handsome gift Of the law
library OF Benjamin Harris Brewster, con-
sisting Of upwards Of 5000 volumes, and
being ranked a. one OF the finest in the
country.
Restaurants are now connected with
many OF the high schools throughout the
country, one OF the most successful In
providing warm lunchcons for pupils be-
ing that Of the Industrial High School Of
Philadelphia.
A graduate course in pedagogics is con-
Quoted in the University Of the City OF
New York, under the direction of DIR.
Jerome Allen, the class OF teachers, prin.
cipals and others wishing to study the
history and science of education meeting
once week.
A handsome building is being erected
at Rock Point, near Burlington, VT, for
an Episcopal diocesan school for young
ladies, for which a bcquest OF $40, 900 from
the late John X. Howard, Of Burlington,
was given on condition OF an additional
equal amount being raised.
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